Interior Secretary Salazar Comments on Oil Spill

Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar says BP will be held accountable for the oil spill in the Gulf, adding: "We will keep our boot on their neck until the job gets done."

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... President Obama has made it very clear that the United States of America will not rest ... we will not rest for one minute until this problem ... gets resolved ... it is also important to note that ... with us today ... as the leadership of United States Senate ... we think about the assistant majority leader the United States Senate ... Dick Durbin is here with the five of the colleagues in the U S Senate ... because the eyes of the United States and are on Louisiana what's happening here in the Gulf Coast today ... I make it very clear under the law ... BP is the responsible party ... BP is charged with jabbing the weekend were well and paying for the response and for the recovery without limitation ... they will be held accountable ... we will keep our food on their neck until the job gets done ... and as I said yesterday ... we will make sure that all of the responsibilities are for fulfilled to the people of the Gulf Coast and to the United States government ... when the alarm ... as the commander ... of the situation is not satisfied with the actions of BP ... he calls and twelve RVBD and Porsche is that the date every appropriate step ... he will order them ... to take ... the appropriate steps ... I also have made it clear ... that we are not standing on the sidelines and living BBDO with BP wants the job ... the federal government has ... not had the largest response to fight this oil in all of the history of this country ... we have deployed more than a dozen vessels ... twenty thousand plus people about their working day and night ... we're at a low off the surface ... we use them to disperse that on the surface and in the under siege ... miles and miles of protected moment and we're working to protect and clean up the shorelines ... we are getting a secretary in a bubble said ... the ball Bunnell said in the plug and abandon all rate numbers from the best scientists in the world ... the wall tile the United States how much of this beat the oil has already spilled out into the Gulf Coast ... the administration has done everything we can possible ... to make sure the week with BP to stop this bill ... and to continue ... you've also been very clear ... that there are areas where BP in the private sector are the ones who must continue to lead the efforts ... of government oversight that doesn't apply to private sector technology five thousand feet below the Ocean's surface that all the well ... BPM the private sector with the help of federal scientists are the ones who must get the problems ... and ... we have the oversight capacity administration to make sure that they are